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Posts by Chris Wells

  1. Third Factor Reads: Mellow Out by Michael M. Piechowski

    September 28th, 2018 by Chris Wells | Issue 3: Overexcitability & Maladjustment |

    Executive Editor Chris Wells describes how Michael Piechowski’s Mellow Out opened doors for her to understand herself as a gifted person, and showed her the way forward in studying overexcitability as an academic.

  2. Overexcitability: Where It Came From, Where It’s Going

    June 28th, 2018 by Chris Wells | Issue 1: A Theory for Our Time |

    To navigate the controversy that has erupted around overexcitability—is it related to giftedness? Is it misused as excuse, or a reason not to seek needed help?—it’s useful to step back and see what it means in the context of the theory that gave it its name.

words of wisdom

What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be on to something is to be in despair.

—Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

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